Digital preservation at TIB

Producers and users of scientific materials place high demands on the information they use in terms of integrity, authenticity, consistency and citation. The TIB has assumed responsibility for the long-term preservation and availability of the digital materials it collects and documents, as well as their interpretability for use by different target groups. To this end, it has created the necessary infrastructure and guarantees the permanent provision of both material and human resources.

Digitally preserved objects

TIB digitally preserves objects from various sources, and helps the respective data producers to submit these to the library. This includes

Grey literature

German research reports

Dissertations of the Leibniz Universität Hannover

Open Access publications

Open Access available objects of the institutional repository of Leibniz Universität Hannover

Non-textual media

Retro-digitised copies produced by the TIB

USB and CD images

Our services for long-term archiving

The TIB offers various service components in the context of long-term digital preservation depending on the source material, which take into account the licensing, organizational and technical requirements for the materials.

Services are provided to the following target groups in particular:

Scientists, lecturers, students at universities, colleges and non-university research institutions

Employees in non-academic and commercial research

libraries

Archives, museums and infrastructure facilities

Project sponsors such as the German Research Foundation (DFG) or the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)